294. For there are three that bare record in heaven, the Father, the
Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these-_three_ are _one_. I John v.. 7.
295.. And David _danced_ before the Lord _with all his might_; and David
was girded with a linen, ephod. 2 Samuel vi. M.
296. And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved; and _the heavens
shall be rolled together as a scroll_; and all their host shall fall
down as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from
the fig tree. Isaiah xxxiv. 4.
297. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and
the first earth _were passed away, and there was no more sea_. Rev. xxi.
1.
298. Then said the Lord unto Moses, behold I will _rain bread from
heaven_ for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate
every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law
or no. And they gathered it every morning, ever man according to his
eating; and when the sun waxed hot it _melted_. Exod. xvi. 4, 21.
299. And it came to pass as they fled from before Israel, and were in
the going down to Beth-horon that the Lord _cast down great stones from
heaven_ upon them unto Azekah, and they died; they were more which died
with hailstones, than they whom the children of Israel slew with the
sword. Joshua x. 11
300. Then the Lord _rained_ upon Sodom, and upon Gomorrah, _brimstone
and fire_ from the Lord _out of heaven_. Gen. xix. 24.
301. And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man
of God, _then let fire come down from heaven_, and consume thee and thy
fifty, and there came down _fire from heaven_ and consumed him and his
fifty. 2 Kings i. 10.
302. And then the Lord's wrath be kindled against you, and he _shut
up the heaven that there be no rain_, and that the land yield not her
fruit, and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord
giveth you. Dent. xi. 17.
303. _When heaven is shut up and there is no rain_, because they have
sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy
name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them. 1 Kings viii.
35.
304. I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the
body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body I cannot tell; God
knoweth) such an one caught up to the _third heaven_. 2 Corin. xii. 2.
305. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was _silence in
heaven_ about the space of _half an hour_. Rev. viii. 1.
306. After this I looked, and behold, _a door was opened in heaven_; and
the first voice which I heard was as it were a trumpet talking with me;
which said, come up hither, _and, 1 will shew thee things which must be
hereafter_. And immediately I was in the spirit; and behold a throne was
set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look
upon like a jasper, and a sardine stone; and there was a _rainbow round
about the throne_, in sight like unto an emerald. And round about the
throne were four and twenty seats; and upon the seats I saw four and
twenty elders sitting, _clothed in white raiment,_ and they had on their
heads _crowns of gold_. And out of the throne proceeded _lightnings and
thunder-ings_, and voices, and there were _seven lamps of fire_ burning
before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God. And before the
throne there was _a sea of glass_ like unto the crystal; and in the
midst of the throne, and round about the throne _were four beasts full
of eyes before and behind._ And the first beast was like a _lion_, and
the second beast like a _calf_ and the third beast _had a face as a
man_, and the fourth beast was like a _flying eagle_. And the four
beasts had each of them _six wings_ about him, and they were full of
eyes within _and they rest not day and night, saying, holy, holy, holy,
Lord God Almighty which was, and is, and is to come_. Rev. iv. 1 to 8.
[This is a very beautiful description of heaven--it almost equals in
absurdity and extravagance the wild dreams of Mahomet.]
307. And when they shall have finished their testimony, the _beast_ that
ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and
shall overcome them, and kill them. Rev. xi. 7.
[It appears, then, from this and the preceding note, that there are
beasts both in hell and in heaven; whether these angelic creatures have
immortal souls or not, the theologians may decide.]
Also Notes 73, 74, and 76.